News Corpse‘s Mark Howard provides (11/3/08) an Election Day reminder of how the announcement of a winner “is not as straightforward as one might think”:
At the nationâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s biggest and most dishonest cable TV news network, Fox News, the man in charge of making the final call… is John Moody, and he is also the executive vice president of the Fox News Channel. Mr. Moody’s job is so important that he gets to write memos every morning to tell all the news anchors what to talk about on that day…. In one of these editorial notes that Mr. Moody distributed the day following the elections of 2006, he made some fascinating observations concerning the broad scope of victory enjoyed by the Democratic Party [Howard’s emphasis]:
- “The elections and Rumsfeld’s resignation were a major event but not the end of the world.”
- “â┚¬Ã‚¦letâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress.”…
- “Just because Dems won, the war on terror isn’t over.”
Howard cracks that “we should all be grateful that people like Mr. Moody are on the job and looking out for us, even when we donâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢t know what is in our own best interest.”
See the FAIR publication Extra! Update: Media Rush to Declare Winner in Florida–Again (4/01) by Jim Naureckas
